Biancarosa, Gina
Shanley, Caroline
2015-01-14T15:57:44Z
2015-01-14T15:57:44Z
2015-01-14
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18724
Creating an educational program that results in positive post-secondary and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)-oriented outcomes for all students is a national goal and federal policy directive. Recent research has shown that in addition to measures of academic proficiency, intra- and interpersonal skills are important factors in college and career readiness. Likewise, mathematics proficiency is an important skill for successful STEM outcomes and post-secondary success, but these achievements and outcomes frequently vary based on demographic characteristics. This study utilized data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 to examine the relationships between mathematics achievement growth in Grades K-1 and Grades 3-8, mathematics self-efficacy development in Grades 3-8, and demographic factors including sex, socioeconomic status (SES), and race/ethnicity. Various models of mathematics achievement growth were tested, and the relationships between both early and middle grades mathematics achievement growth and self-efficacy development were also explored. Sex, SES, and race/ethnicity differences in both mathematics achievement growth and self-efficacy development were discovered, and findings were consistent with familiar achievement gaps favoring white and Asian males from above median SES households. In particular, SES was found to be a ubiquitous factor in both mathematics achievement and self-efficacy development, and sex moderated some of the relationships between mathematics achievement and self-efficacy. Implications for future research, instructional design, and intervention development are discussed.
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Growth
Mathematics
Race
Self-Efficacy
Sex
Socioeconomic Status
1 + 1 Is Not Always 2: Variation in the Relations Between Mathematics Self-Efficacy Development and Longitudinal Mathematics Achievement Growth
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Ph.D.
doctoral
Department of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership
University of Oregon

Dennis, Matthew
Munger, Michael
Munger, Michael
2012-10-26T04:03:16Z
2012-10-26T04:03:16Z
2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12417
The catastrophic eruption of the Indonesian volcano Mt. Tambora in April 1815, which ejected a cloud of sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere, plunged the world into a rapid temporary climate change event. A series of bizarre weather anomalies, including snowstorms in June and repeated heavy frosts throughout the rest of the summer, earned 1816 the moniker "the Year Without a Summer." This paper examines the various ways in which Americans reacted to the climate change--seeking causation explanations through science and superstition, political and religious responses, and the efforts to appreciate what the events meant in terms of the world's changing climate. Through these various reactions, a picture emerges of Americans' incomplete understanding of science and nature, as well as an uneasy reckoning with the impossibility of fully explaining their environment and the potential dangers it presented to them.
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University of Oregon
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1816
climate change
Early Republic
Tambora
volcanic winter
Year Without a Summer
1816: "The Mighty Operations of Nature": An Environmental History of the Year Without a Summer
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Scalise, Kathleen
Short, Barbara
Short, Barbara
2012-10-26T04:02:15Z
2012-10-26T04:02:15Z
2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12407
This study examines some aspects of student performance in the 21st century skills of Information and Communication (ICT) Literacy and collaboration. In this project, extant data from the Assessment and Teaching for 21st Century Skills project (ATC21S) will be examined. ATC21S is a collaborative effort among educational agencies in six countries, universities, educational research groups, high tech innovators and the multinational corporations Cisco, Intel and Microsoft. ATC21S demonstration tasks explore the use of digital literacy and collaborative problem solving constructs in educational assessment. My research investigates evidence from cognitive laboratories and pilots administered in one of the ATC21S demonstration scenarios, a collaborative mathematics/science task called "Global Collaboration Contest: Arctic Trek." Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, I analyze student work samples. Specifically, I (i) develop a rubric as a measurement tool to evaluate the student assessment artifact "Arctic Trek Notebook" for (a) generalized patterns and (b) trends that may indicate skill development in collaborative learning in a digital environment and (ii) conduct descriptive studies among the variables of student age and student notebook characteristics. Results are intended to inform instructional leaders on estimates of student ability in virtual collaboration and to make suggestions for instructional design and professional development for online collaborative learning assessment tasks in K-12 education.
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University of Oregon
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21st Century Skills
Digital Collaboration
Instructional Design for Digital Collaboration
K-12 Education
Performance Assessment
Technology: Information & Communication Literacy
21st Century Skills Development: Learning in Digital Communities: Technology and Collaboration
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Conner, Andrew Brondos, 1981-
2011-09-12T19:31:59Z
2013-06-04T17:45:42Z
2011-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11559
x, 68 p. : ill. (some col.)
Motivated by the Adams spectral sequence for computing stable homotopy groups, Priddy defined a class of algebras called Koszul algebras with nice homological properties. Many important algebras arising naturally in mathematics are Koszul, and the Koszul property is often tied to important structure in the settings which produced the algebras. However, the strong defining conditions for a Koszul algebra imply that such algebras must be quadratic.
A very natural generalization of Koszul algebras called K 2 algebras was recently introduced by Cassidy and Shelton. Unlike other generalizations of the Koszul property, the class of K 2 algebras is closed under many standard operations in ring theory. The class of K 2 algebras includes Artin-Schelter regular algebras of global dimension 4 on three linear generators as well as graded complete intersections.
Our work comprises two distinct projects. Each project was motivated by an aspect of the theory of Koszul algebras which we regard as sufficiently powerful or fundamental to warrant an interpretation for K 2 algebras.
A very useful theorem due to Backelin and Fröberg states that if A is a Koszul algebra and I is a quadratic ideal of A which is Koszul as a left A -module, then the factor algebra A/I is a Koszul algebra. We prove that if A is Koszul algebra and A I is a K 2 module, then A/I is a K 2 algebra provided A/I acts trivially on Ext A ( A/I,k ). As an application of our theorem, we show that the class of sequentially Cohen-Macaulay Stanley-Reisner rings are K 2 algebras and we give examples that suggest the class of K 2 Stanley-Reisner rings is actually much larger.
Another important recent development in ring theory is the use of A ∞ -algebras. One can characterize Koszul algebras as those graded algebras whose Yoneda algebra admits only trivial A ∞ -structure. We show that, in contrast to the situation for Koszul algebras, vanishing of higher A ∞ -structure on the Yoneda algebra of a K 2 algebra need not be determined in any obvious way by the degrees of defining relations. We also demonstrate that obvious patterns of vanishing among higher multiplications cannot detect the K 2 property.
This dissertation includes previously unpublished co-authored material.
Committee in charge: Dr. Brad Shelton, Chair;
Dr. Victor Ostrik, Member;
Dr. Nicholas Proudfoot, Member;
Dr. Arkady Vaintrob, Member;
Dr. David Boush, Outside Member
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Mathematics, Ph. D., 2011;
A-infinity
Face ring
K2
Koszul algebras
Stanley-Reisner
Yoneda algebra
Ring theory
Mathematics
A(infinity)-structures, generalized Koszul properties, and combinatorial topology
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Polishchuk, Alexander
Fisette, Robert
Fisette, Robert
2012-10-26T03:58:22Z
2012-10-26T03:58:22Z
2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12368
We choose a generator G of the derived category of coherent sheaves on a smooth
curve X of genus g which corresponds to a choice of g distinguished points P1, . . . , Pg on X.
We compute the Hochschild cohomology of the algebra B = Ext (G,G) in certain internal
degrees relevant to extending the associative algebra structure on B to an A1-structure, which
demonstrates that A1-structures on B are finitely determined for curves of arbitrary genus.
When the curve is taken over C and g = 1, we amend an explicit A1-structure on B
computed by Polishchuk so that the higher products m6 and m8 become Hochschild cocycles.
We use the cohomology classes of m6 and m8 to recover the j-invariant of the curve. When
g 2, we use Massey products in Db(X) to show that in the A1-structure on B, m3 is
homotopic to 0 if and only if X is hyperelliptic and P1, . . . , Pg are chosen to be Weierstrass
points.
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University of Oregon
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A-infinity
Curve
Elliptic curve
Hochschild cohomology
j-invariant
The A-infinity Algebra of a Curve and the J-invariant
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Ostmeier, Dorothee
Baumeister, Anna-Lisa
Baumeister, Anna-Lisa
2012-10-26T04:07:24Z
2014-12-29T21:12:31Z
2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12457
In this thesis, I examine the figure of the “disgusting woman” in contemporary Austrian literature. I begin by developing a theoretical orientation to disgust and the disgusting woman, drawing from works by Winfried Menninghaus, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler, and Theodor Adorno. Next, I use this theoretical framework to interpret three prominent texts of contemporary Austrian literature: Barbara Frischmuth’s “Otter,” Christoph Ransmayr’s Die letzte Welt, and Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin. Ultimately, my analysis yields three compelling insights. First, through literary interpretation, disgust can be shown to operate at a cultural level to exclude and oppress women. Second, literary texts can describe and reveal, in a way purely theoretical works cannot, the visceral, embodied effects of disgust on human subjects—and on women in particular. Finally, and more optimistically, many of those cultural practices which exclude and oppress women might be transformed through critical engagement with the phenomenon of disgust.
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University of Oregon
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Abjektion
Ekel
Gender
österreichische Literatur
Abjektion und Metamorphose - Metamorphose und Abjektion: Verekelungbilder des Weiblichen in zeitgenössicher österreichischer Literatur
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Scalise, Kathleen
Oskui-Tabrizi, Nargas
2014-10-17T16:13:04Z
2014-10-17T16:13:04Z
2014-10-17
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18504
Academic computing is one major component of Information Technology infrastructure affecting the availability and utilization of technologies at universities. The study here evaluated two different colleges at the University of Oregon in comparison to a minimal logic model proposed here, the Support for Academic Computing Model (SAC). Based on the differences in IT needs and implementation of existing instructional technology services, the evaluation investigated the utility of the logic model and information regarding the two settings. The two colleges are the College of Education (COE) and the School of Architecture and Allied Arts (AAA). My hypothesis is that empirical evaluation studies based on a comparison with a base logic model for infrastructure needs across contexts may help to provide information to better align resources.
Results show that a strong use case of 100% of faculty interviewed at COE rely on Learning Management Systems (LMSs), Data Visualization and Video & Audio tools, making them a core part of the SAC model. Most faculty interviewed in AAA utilize LMSs at 89%, then Productivity/Content Creation/Research Tools at 83%, and as an extension Instructional Media Tools at 46%, which helps to validate the SAC model across this second context. Other information in the model evaluation allows more specific comparisons of gaps in areas such as access to resources, knowledge of and about resources, mission-driven need for resources, and some patterns.
Common themes that emerged from the faculty interviews are the need to showcase technology usage among colleagues, that services are not always well advertised, that technology may not be accessible or that there may be issues regarding limited or unclear funding for both support and resources that limits their use. This indicates that this style of a model might be helpful in planning and evaluating academic computing support programs and services. Future work would be needed to investigate the degree to which intervening according to the findings of such a model might be efficacious to improve the perceived quality of services or the usage patterns and outcomes, as well as the degree to which such a model could be generalized and evolve over time.
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University of Oregon
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Academic Computing
Faculty Support
Higher Education
Infrastructure
Logic Model
Program Evaluation
Academic Computing Infrastructure Program Evaluation
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D.Ed.
doctoral
Department of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership
University of Oregon

Eiler, Lisa Ann
2010-02-19T23:52:03Z
2010-02-19T23:52:03Z
2009-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10203
xii, 84 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
In this dissertation, I investigate how cross-country differences in regulatory environments affect the value and distribution of gains in cross-border acquisitions. I focus on how pre-acquisition strategies to reduce the valuation discount arising from weak regulatory environments affect the value and distribution of gains between acquiring and target firms. The two specific strategies I examine are cross-listing and voluntarily adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). I compare the value and distribution of synergy gains for target firms from weak regulatory environments that have cross-listed or adopted IFRS (i.e., "strategic firms") to (1) target firms in similar countries that have not done so (i.e., "non-strategic firms") and (2) target firms in strong regulatory environment countries.
For the first group, I expect lower total synergy gains and merger premia in acquisitions involving strategic target firms. However, I expect higher total valuation gains (i.e., the merger premium plus the increase in value from the strategy) for strategic firms. For the second comparison group, I expect higher total synergy gains and merger premia in acquisitions involving strategic firms relative to firms from strong regulatory environments.
I test my predictions on a sample of cross-border acquisitions completed in 26 countries between 1995-2007. In acquisitions involving target firms from weak regulatory environments, I find no evidence that either the total synergy gain or merger premium are smaller for strategic firms. In fact, I find some evidence that the total synergy gains are higher for strategic firms relative to non-strategic firms. I find some evidence of higher total valuation gains for cross-listed firms, consistent with my hypothesis. For the second comparison group, I find no evidence that either the total synergy gain or merger premium are higher for strategic firms.
By examining cross-border acquisitions, my research provides evidence on an increasingly important and economically significant type of foreign direct investment. I relate literature investigating the determinants and distribution of merger synergies to literature analyzing methods to eliminate cross-country valuation discounts. Therefore, my research makes an important contribution by providing insights beyond identifying which party captures synergy gains in cross-border acquisitions.
Committee in charge: David Guenther, Chairperson, Accounting;
Steven Matsunaga, Member, Accounting;
Linda Krull, Member, Accounting;
Bruce Blonigen, Outside Member, Economics
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Accounting, Ph. D., 2009;
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions
Cross-listing
IFRS
International Financial Reporting Standards
Accounting disclosure
Mergers and acquisitions
Accounting
Disclosure in accounting
Accounting disclosure quality and synergy gains: Evidence from cross-border mergers and acquisitions
Thesis

Cornwell, T. Bettina
Koppenhafer, Leslie
2014-10-17T16:13:44Z
2014-10-17
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18511
This dissertation examines how the inclusion of the social element in access-based consumption can influence affective and behavioral responses. The first essay builds upon the dimensions proposed by Bardhi and Eckhardt, who found that market mediation, anonymity, temporality, consumer involvement, type of accessed object and political consumerism are key dimensions on which to study access-based consumption. A reconceptualization of these dimensions is proposed in the current work to incorporate the social element. Foremost, a separation of renting and sharing based on the presence or absence of economic exchange is proposed. The implications for the remaining dimensions of anonymity, temporality, consumer participation, type of accessed object, political consumerism and governance are then discussed. Finally, key outcome variables of community, cooperation, loneliness and contagion are reviewed.
In Essay 2, the guiding theory of social distance is used to empirically test the impact of the social element on evaluations of a rental service on the outcomes of satisfaction, attitude, disgust and community. In the rental context examined, users are interpersonally anonymous indicating that there is no relationship between the current user and other users. In addition, users must engage in extra-role behaviors because no intermediaries are present. In three experiments, it is shown that encounters with other users can lead to increased feelings of disgust and decreased satisfaction and attitude towards the rental service. Having information about other users, provided in the form of avatar images, can enhance feelings of community, as can certain types of communication between users. Given the benefits that emerge from feelings of community, Essay 3 explores factors that can enhance or detract from sense of community. Factors such as apathetic participation and similarity are considered. In addition, positive outcomes that emerge from feelings of community, such as sign-up likelihood and care behaviors, are measured.
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University of Oregon
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access-based consumption
community
contagion
renting
sharing
social element
Accounting for the Social Element in Access-Based Consumption
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2015-04-17
Ph.D.
doctoral
Department of Marketing
University of Oregon

Roth, Leland
Rieke, Lauren
2013-10-03T23:30:22Z
2013-10-03T23:30:22Z
2013-10-03
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13224
After years of assimilation and acculturation, many Native Americans have both the means and strength to assert their unique identity among mainstream America. They have devised various channels for accomplishing this, such as language classes and continuing traditional practices, often using resources offered through State, Federal or Tribal Historic Preservation programs. Constructions of contemporary traditional architecture can be another of these tools used to promote this cultural renaissance. As a field that defines itself on the basis of cultural conservation, Historic Preservation principles claim to support these endeavors; however, because they do not meet the age criteria for "historic structures," such buildings are often left out of the preservation matrix. By examining the Achfa-hammi plankhouse of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, this thesis will address the building's impact on cultural revitalization and explore the disconnect that exists between Historic Preservation policies and new constructions of tribal architectures.
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University of Oregon
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Historic Preservation
Native American Architecture
Traditional Cultural Properties
The Achfa-hammi Plankhouse: Understanding Tribal Architectures in the Realm of Historic Preservation
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M.S.
masters
Interdisciplinary Studies Program: Historic Preservation
University of Oregon

Tininenko, Jennifer R., 1978-
2009-01-21T00:32:26Z
2009-01-21T00:32:26Z
2008-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8336
xiv, 111 p. A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
Sleep studies have rarely explored individual differences in sleep disruption and associated outcomes at early ages. In two studies, this dissertation addresses both of these limitations using actigraphy, an activity-derived assessment of sleep, to increase understanding of negative impacts of sleep on early development. Study 1 investigated sleep disruption in foster children and sleep-related treatment outcomes of the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Preschoolers (MTFC-P) intervention program. Study 2 explored individual differences in the associations among sleep, children's behavior, and neurohormonal activity. Four groups of participants ages 3- to 7-years-old were included in both studies: (1) Regular foster care (RFC; n=15); (2) MTFC-P intervention (TFC; n= 17); (3) Low-income community (LIC; n= 18); and 4. Middle-income community (MIC; n=29).
Results of Study 1 indicated greater sleep disruption in foster groups, as evidenced by longer sleep latencies and increased variability of sleep duration, in the TFC group than in community groups. There was also indication of a treatment effect as the TFC group slept longer than RFC and LIC groups and had earlier bedtimes, fell asleep earlier, and spent more time in bed than either community group. LIC children had marginally more active sleep than MIC children, indicating a possible role for socioeconomic status in sleep quality.
In Study 2, correlational and causal modeling approaches were used to investigate associations among sleep disruption, problem behaviors, and diurnal cortisol. Influences of foster care placement, gender, and age were also examined as potential individual difference factors. Results of mixed linear autoregressive models indicated that children were more likely to display inattentive/hyperactive behaviors after shortened sleep durations. Furthermore, at lower sleep durations, differences among care groups and genders emerged as children in foster care and males were at heightened risk for inattentive/hyperactive behavior problems. No associations between sleep and disruptive problem behaviors were found and there were few associations with morning and evening cortisol values.
Results of these studies are discussed in terms of the effectiveness of the MTFC-P program for addressing sleep problems in foster children. Additionally, clinical implications of the heightened likelihood of inattentive/hyperactive behavior problems after disrupted sleep in some children are discussed.
Adviser: Phil Fisher
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Psychology, Ph. D., 2008;
Clinical psychology
Developmental psychology
Psychobiology
Young children
Sleep disturbance
Actigraphy
Children
Foster care
Cortisol
Behavior
Sleep
Actigraphic evaluation of sleep disturbance in young children
Thesis

Miyao, Daisuke
Koble, Sean
2014-09-29T17:45:45Z
2014-09-29T17:45:45Z
2014-09-29
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18363
The narrative structure and formal style of the director Shinoda Masahiro's films reveal his ethical objective to encourage his viewer to engage with works of cinematic representation as the creative products of human agency that they are. Within his period films, Shinoda hopes to stimulate recognition of cinema's genealogical inheritance and reproduction of the absolutist propositions underlying traditional Japanese cultural forms. He posits that these have redirected essential human drives into masochistic self-effacement in tribute to a divine ideal imaged in the Imperial polity.
By disrupting the illusion of cinematic realism which simply serves to reinforce Japanese culture's existent intertextual networks, Shinoda seeks to reground cultural expressions in their material and human origins. This acts as the first step to imagining a Japanese subject outside of the limited definitions posed by nostalgic absolutism and its reactionary antithesis in the equally self-destructive mode of global capitalism.
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University of Oregon
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Absolutism
Distantiation
Film
Humanism
New Wave
Shinoda
Acting the Role of Gods: Shinoda Masahiro's Cinematic Confrontations with the Absolute Image
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M.A.
masters
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Oregon

Halverson, Timothy E., 1971-
2009-05-18T23:22:21Z
2009-05-18T23:22:21Z
2008-12
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9174
xx, 191 p. : ill. (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
Visual search is an important part of human-computer interaction (HCI). The visual search processes that people use have a substantial effect on the time expended and likelihood of finding the information they seek. This dissertation investigates visual search through experiments and computational cognitive modeling. Computational cognitive modeling is a powerful methodology that uses computer simulation to capture, assert, record, and replay plausible sets of interactions among the many human processes at work during visual search. This dissertation aims to provide a cognitive model of visual search that can be utilized by predictive interface analysis tools and to do so in a manner consistent with a comprehensive theory of human visual processing, namely active vision. The model accounts for the four questions of active vision, the answers to which are important to both practitioners and researchers in HCI: What can be perceived in a fixation? When do the eyes move? Where do the eyes move? What information is integrated between eye movements?
This dissertation presents a principled progression of the development of a computational model of active vision. Three experiments were conducted that investigate the effects of visual layout properties: density, color, and word meaning. The experimental results provide a better understanding of how these factors affect human- computer visual interaction. Three sets of data, two from the experiments reported here, were accurately modeled in the EPIC (Executive Process-Interactive Control) cognitive architecture. This work extends the practice of computational cognitive modeling by (a) informing the process of developing computational models through the use of eye movement data and (b) providing the first detailed instantiation of the theory of active vision in a computational framework. This instantiation allows us to better understand (a) the effects and interactions of visual search processes and (b) how these visual search processes can be used computationally to predict people's visual search behavior. This research ultimately benefits HCI by giving researchers and practitioners a better understanding of how users visually interact with computers and provides a foundation for tools to predict that interaction.
This dissertation includes-both previously published and co-authored material.
Adviser: Anthony J. Hornof
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Ph. D., 2008;
Visual search
Human-computer interaction
Cognitive modeling
Eye tracking
Cognitive psychology
Computer science
An "active vision" computational model of visual search for human-computer interaction
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Stevens, Tom
Graybill, Chiharu
2014-06-17T19:29:47Z
2014-06-17
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/17875
The phosphorylation activity of protein kinases is involved in virtually all biological processes of living organisms. As uncontrolled kinase cascades cause devastating defects such as cancer, cells employ complex regulatory networks to precisely control their activity. Atypical Protein Kinase C (aPKC) is a well-conserved protein kinase that plays a central role in the establishment of the Par complex-mediated cell polarity. The goal of my research is to understand how aPKC activity is regulated and how aPKC phosphorylates its substrates. The first part of my study focused on the mechanism by which intra- and intermolecular interactions regulate aPKC activity. aPKC contains a pseudosubstrate domain that acts as an internal inhibitor. Despite the presence of the cis-acting inhibitor, another Par complex member, Par-6, is thought to repress aPKC activity. To examine the precise mechanism by which the pseudosubstrate domain and Par-6 regulate aPKC activity, I reconstituted the system in vitro and performed a detailed kinetic analysis. We confirmed that the pseudosubstrate domain is responsible for the autoinhibition. Surprisingly, rather than acting as an inhibitor, Par-6 activates aPKC by displacing the pseudosubstrate from the kinase domain. Par-6 activation of aPKC is consistent with our observation that the Par-6/aPKC complex, but not aPKC alone, releases its substrate from the cell membrane in Drosophila S2 cells. The data support a model in which aPKC activity is coupled to localization via Par-6. In the second part, I investigated how the phosphorylation activity of aPKC is coupled to cortical displacement of fate determinants, which often contain multiple phospho-accepting residues. Using Lgl as a model substrate in S2 localization assays, I examined the role of multiple phosphorylations and found that multi-site phosphorylation is required for cortical release. Also, I examined how aPKC phosphorylates Lgl in an in vitro kinase assay and found that aPKC cooperatively phosphorylates Lgl in an ordered manner. These results provide new insights into how multiple phosphorylation and phosphorylation rates could regulate localization behaviors of fate determinants at the cortex.
This dissertation contains previously published coauthored materials as well as unpublished materials.
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University of Oregon
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aPKC
Cell Polarity
Enzyme Kinetics
Phosphorylation
Activity of Atypical Protein Kinase C: From Regulation to Substrate Localization
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2016-06-17
Ph.D.
doctoral
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Oregon

McIntyre, Laura Lee
Golya, Nandita
2014-10-17T16:13:27Z
2014-10-17
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18508
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) represent a heterogeneous population, with wide variability in adaptive behavior. Understanding sources of variability in adaptive behavior in children with ASD has important implications for early intervention. From a bioecological perspective, it may be critical for researchers and clinicians to examine the joint influence of child specific attributes and family characteristics in order to gain a better understanding of adaptive behavior development among children with ASD. Previous studies examining the association between adaptive behavior and autism symptom severity have yielded inconsistent results, emphasizing the need for additional research. Additionally, the link between caregiver depression and adaptive behavior warrants investigation given initial evidence that familial depression negatively influences adaptive behavior in children with ASD. The present study extended previous research efforts by examining the relations among adaptive behavior (communication, socialization, and daily living skills), autism symptom severity, and caregiver depression in families with young children with ASD. Families were recruited through early intervention and early childhood special education/preschool programs. Data were collected from 60 primary caregivers of young children through the use of extensive in-home interviews and child assessments. Adaptive behavior, autism symptom severity, and caregiver depression were measured using the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, Childhood Autism Rating Scale, and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, respectively. Findings suggest that after controlling for child age, autism symptom severity accounted for significant variance in adaptive behavior skills, with socialization being most impacted. Furthermore, adaptive behavior profiles differed across autism symptom severity levels. While more than half of the caregivers reported heightened depressive symptoms, caregiver depression was not statistically related to adaptive behavior. Limitations, directions for future research, and implications for practice are discussed.
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University of Oregon
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Adaptive Behavior
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Symptom Severity
Caregiver Depression
Adaptive Behavior, Autism Symptom Severity, and Caregiver Depression in Families with Young Children with Autism
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2016-10-17
Ph.D.
doctoral
Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences
University of Oregon

Chavez, Chris
Goris, Michelle
2013-10-03T23:35:58Z
2014-12-29T21:12:32Z
2013-10-03
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13308
As corporations transcend international borders new questions arise concerning the formation of identities. This study looks at adidas advertising campaigns "Bonded by Blood" and "Of This Earth" and how they represent and commodify Māori culture. "The Making" of "Bonded by Blood" is the video component for that campaign. The "Of This Earth" file is the TV commercial from 2007. Furthermore, this study looked at whether or not these advertisements are in fact reaffirming already established stereotypes about indigeneity and "Otherness." This thesis is informed by Stuart Hall's article "The Spectacle of the Other" as well as works by other scholars who discuss ideologies of Otherness, globalization, glocalization, mobility, and corporate sports sponsorship. The posters of each campaign as well as the video components were analyzed through textual analysis. The results show that patterns of cultural appropriation and reaffirmation of stereotypes do occur in the posters and videos of those campaigns.
The two video components are included as supplementary files for this thesis.
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University of Oregon
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adidas
All Blacks
Globalization
Glocalization
Identity
Maori
adidas, the All Blacks, and Maori Culture: Globalization and the Reformation of Local Identities
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M.A.
masters
School of Journalism and Communication
University of Oregon

Anderson, Scott Patrick, 1956-
2011-03-04T20:21:35Z
2011-03-04T20:21:35Z
2010-09
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11004
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As a key figure in Imperial Russia's Great Reforms from 1861 to 1874, Count Dmitrii Alekseevich Miliutin has received a good deal of attention by historians and scholars; however, his recently published memoirs have yet to be used extensively as the foundation for any study. Having them readily at one's fingertips would be a boon by itself, but to examine them using a different methodology could potentially provide a totally unique perspective. The methodology in question was based on the assumption that war influenced societies and society affected how war was conducted. By reexamining Imperial Russia's military administrative and social reforms with the newly published memoirs and afore-mentioned methodology, Miliutin's logic in formulating the reforms became apparent, as did his intended results, which included a challenge to the privileged status of Russia's ensconced power elites.
Committee in Charge:
Dr. Alan Kimball, Chair;
Dr. Julie Hessler;
Dr. Alex Dracobly
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University of Oregon theses, Dept. of History, M. A., 2010;
Military history
Russian history
Miliutin, Dmitrii Alekseevich, graf, 1816-1912
Russia -- History, Military -- 19th century
The adminstrative and social reforms of Russia's military, 1861-1874: Dmitrii Miliutin against the ensconced power elite
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McLucas, Anne
Lee, SunHwa
Lee, SunHwa
2012-10-26T04:08:33Z
2012-10-26T04:08:33Z
2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12469
This thesis examines Stravinsky’s aesthetics of objectivism, as described in his
own book and displayed in three different genres from his neoclassical period:
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920), Perséphone (1933), and Orpheus (1947). My
research has significance, in that I combine aesthetics and musical analysis in examining
Stravinsky’s objectivism. Drawing on Stravinsky’s book, Poetics of Music in the Form of
Six Lessons, I define his objectivism as the structural organization of musical materials,
the denial of expression of subjective emotion, the importance of the composer’s
invention, and the concept of limitation.
Stravinsky’s objectivism appears in various ways in the different genres. The
instrumental piece Symphonies of Wind Instruments presents the lack of linear continuity
and development. The melodrama Perséphone represents his objectivism through his
rearrangement of French text, and the ballet Orpheus shows his restrained expression in
reduced orchestration, quiet dynamics, and cool tone colors.
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Igor Stravinsky
Aesthetics of Objectivism in Igor Stravinsky's Neoclassical Works
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Goble, Andrew
Hunter, Rebekah
2014-10-17T16:16:42Z
2014-10-17T16:16:42Z
2014-10-17
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18543
This study acts as a response to questions surrounding the position of women in the Heian court as encountered by earlier scholars. To that end this study examines the construction of the Heian concept of femininity with regard to both women of the lady-waiting and elite classes, as illustrated in diaries and court records. The findings indicate that the aesthetic of womanhood oftentimes related to an ideal of female passivity in romantic relations with men and of selflessness in involvement in major court decisions. This aesthetic was physically manifested in the attention given to the sequestration of women of high rank. However, evidence suggests that this aesthetic did not mean that women were not influential, in part because this aesthetic was an ideal that did not necessarily reflect reality.
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gender
Heian
Japan
women
Aesthetics of Womanhood in Heian Japan
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M.A.
masters
Department of History
University of Oregon